BUFFALO, NY - Following reports on TV news stations, including 2 On Your Side, Buffalo Police received a tip as to the location of the missing statue taken from the replica Trevi Fountain at the Buffalo Italian Festival.

It has since been returned and is back on the fountain.

A spokesperson for the Buffalo Police say it appears two men took the statue as a prank.  Once officers located the individuals, they asked them to return the statue unharmed, which they did.

At this time, it does not appear festival organizers are going to press charges but they may ask the two pranksters to perform community service at the 4-day event.

Sometime overnight, the piece of a replica of the famous Trevi Fountain was taken as it was awaiting set up for the upcoming Italian Festival.

The 8th Annual Jalana Palma Scholarship Bike Run takes to the road on Sunday, August 8. Motorcycles leave the Panera parking lot at Sheridan and Delaware in Tonawanda at 10 a.m. and arrive at the American Legion Niagara Frontier Post at 533 Amherst Street in Buffalo. A reception there begins at 3 p.m.

Jalana Palma, a student at Kenmore East High School, was a 16-year-old girl who lost her life on October 21, 2000 to meningitis. A scholarship established in her honor is awarded to students at Kenmore East High School who are planning to go to college to become teachers, because that was one of Jalana'a ambitions.

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